How Mayor-elect Raman will remake L.A. City Hall

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A new police chief and many more new apartments, even in single-family neighborhoods.And above all, data to find out if City Hall programs are working.Mayor-elect Nithya Raman won’t represent a radical ideological break from her opponent, the one-term incumbent Mayor Bass.Like Bass, she’s a Democrat who believes in ending homelessness, keeping the city safe and delivering basic services.But Raman is expected to push the city to the left on public safety, while also advancing urbanist policies that favor public transit, greater housing production and the redesign of city streets to improve safety and support alternatives to driving.Rick Cole, a former deputy Los Angeles mayor who advised Raman throughout the campaign, said she’s dead serious about her campaign slogan “a city that works” — taking steps to ensure that streets, sidewalks and other parts of the city infrastructure are repaired, while also providing prompt responses to 9-1-1 calls.

Raman intends to be a hands on manager, he said, improving coordination between city departments and analyzing ways to make them more effective.“L.A.has been flying blind when it comes to measuring the impacts of the dollars spent,” said Cole, a Pasadena City Councilmember.

“That is going to change.”As mayor, Raman will have the power to hire and fire the managers of dozens of city agencies and appoint or remove hundreds of citizen commissioners — most of them volunteers — who will serve as an extension of her administration.Cole is widely expected to supervise Raman’s transition team, sharing those duties with Andrea Conant, chief of staff for Raman’s council office.The mayor-elect will also have a close ally in City Controller Kenneth Mejia, the only elected official at City Hall to endorse her.On the campai...